Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Niskanen AK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3522235 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heredity 20121017 1
The process of dog domestication is still somewhat unresolved. Earlier studies indicate that domestic dogs from all over the world have a common origin in Asia. So far, major histocompatibility complex (MHC) diversity has not been studied in detail in Asian dogs, although high levels of genetic diversity are expected at the domestication locality. We sequenced the second exon of the canine MHC gene DLA-DRB1 from 128 Asian dogs and compared our data with a previously published large data set of M ...[more]